Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail could stop the Old Rochester Regional High School environmental science class from a quahogging expedition on Tuesday.

Part of a program with the Buzzards Bay Coalition, the students met up with Senior Educator Margo Connolly at Hiller's Cove in Mattapoisett.

"We are see seeing what we can find in the intertidal zones...to expose them to the things that are out in their neighborhood," said Connolly.

The Coalition received a grant through the Southeastern Environmental Education Alliance to organize six excursions with ORR, as well as Wareham High School and New Bedford High School, over the course of the year.

ORR students already visited the Coalition's Mattaposiett River Reserve to study plants and observe birds.

On Tuesday, after a brief introduction to shellfishing, student put on waders and set off into the water with rakes in hand. The area is not open to shellfishing, so all bivalves were returned to the water.

With the season's first snow flakes swirling, Connolly joked, "I'm guessing they're not going to want to spend a whole ton of time out there today."